Word: kill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to read the painful scrawl: "Please do not get excite over this order I'm giving you. In this suitcase you see in my hand is fill to the top with high explosive. I mean high high . . . I do not believe I can kill and not kill what is around me, and I mean my son will go too . . . Please do not make me push this button that all I have...
...wear the arctic fox you have to kill it. Wear qiviut-the underwool of the arctic ox-pulled off it like a sweater,' your coat is warm; your conscience, better...
...foreigners, mostly British, Russians and Americans, had little ammunition; they did have food (mostly pony meat), champagne from the legation cellars, water, and the certain knowledge that defeat meant death by torture. The grim defense showed the Boxers to be paper tigers. Though the peasants screamed, "Sha, sha [Kill, kill]," they left most of the fighting to the Empress' 6,000-man force of Moslem cavalry. As the siege dragged on. the Boxers posted rewards for dead foreigners-50 taels ($35) for a male. 40 for a female, 30 for a child. Only three rewards were collected. Once, when...
...Jack Benny and nobody else," said Truman, explaining that last year Benny had got out his violin to help "pull the Kansas City Philharmonic out of debt." As for the present show: "We want to keep it dignified," said Benny. "And we are," said Truman. "I'll kill myself if it isn't," said Benny. "All right," Truman punch-lined, "I've got an undertaker friend...
...Kill. Lark burns a brush fence and frees the mustangs. That should be enough to make bullets fly, but there is a special ethic in this far, far western. In battle, as in love, no one shoots to kill. "You could shoot Blanding," Lark urges Stanley. "Oh, I don't mean kill him. You could just shoot his leg off." Bloodlessly the climax peters out, and not even wild horses could drag much response out of anyone but a dyed-in-the-saddle Grey...